Hi,
I wonder if you could provide me with some advice please?
We are a small Company with a warehouse facility, one of our warehouse operatives has made a flexible working request to work set hours (8am to 4pm), usual shifts are 6am-2pm and 2pm - 8pm, the reasons they have quoted are because the early and late shifts are affecting their mental health and they are also partly responsible for the care of a grandparent which involves being available to lift from a fall.
We are going to approve the request as we care very much for employees wellbeing, however, I just wanted to check how this would affect any overtime? The employee regularly works overtime when it is available and this has sometimes been up to 20 hours in a week, working either 4 hours after or before shift start /end times.
Would a request to work set hours of 8am to 4pm effectively mean the employee couldn't work outside of these hours? If this is not the case and they could still work the extra hours then they could be working early / late when it suits them.
Thanks